10,000 B.C. [Blu-ray] starring Camilla
Belle, Steven Strait
10,000 B.C.
To anyone who has ever yearned to see woolly mammoths in full
stampede across the Alps, 10,000 BC can be heartily recommended.
Theres also a flock of terror birds--lethal ostriches on steroids--in a
steaming jungle only a splice away from the heroes snow-dusted alpine
habitat. And lo, somewhere in the vastness of the North African desert lies
a city whose slave inhabitants alternately teem like the crowds in Quo
Vadis during the burning of Rome and trudge in hieratically menacing
formations like the workers in Metropolis. Thats pretty much it for the cool
stuff. Setting movies in prehistoric times is dicey. Apart from the Dawn of
Man sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey, only Quest for Fire makes the
grade, and its creators had the good sense to limit the dialogue to grunts
and moans. 10,000 BC boasts a quasi-biblical narrator (Omar Sharif) and
characters who speak in formed, albeit uninteresting, sentences--including
a New Age–y I understand your pain. But let no one say the storytelling
isnt primitive. The narrator speaks of the legend of the child with the blue
eyes and bingo, heres the kid now. When, grown up to be Camilla Belle,
shes carried off by four-legged demons--guys on horseback to you--the
neighbor boy (Steven Strait) who hankers to make myth with her leads a
rescue mission into the great unknown world beyond their mountaintop.
His name is DLeh, which is Held, the German for knight, spelled backward.
So yes, there is some hidden meaning after all. 10,000 BC is the latest
triumph of the ersatz from writer-director Roland Emmerich. Like Stargate
(1994), Independence Day (1996), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
before it, its shamelessly cobbled together out of every movie Emmerich
can remember to pilfer from (though to be fair, the section in pre-ancient
Egypt harks back to his own Stargate). Emmerichs saving grace is that his
films cheesiness is so flagrant, his narratives so geared for instant
gratification, he can seem like a kid simultaneously improvising and acting
out a story in his backyard: Ptend theres this alien ... ptend maybe he
came from Atlantis or something.... Just dont ptend it has anything to do
with real moviemaking. --Richard T. Jameson
Features:
* From Roland Emmerich, director of Independence Day and The Day
After Tomorrow, comes a awesome new adventure about a time when
mammoths shook the earth and mystical spirits shaped human fates. This
special-effects spectacle is an eye-filling tale of the first hero (Steven
Strait), who sets out on a bold trek to rescue his kidnapped beloved
(Camilla Belle) and to fulfill his prophetic destiny. Batt
In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh, has found his heart's
passion - the beautiful Evolet. When a band of mysterious warlords raid his
village and kidnap Evolet, D'Leh is forced to lead a small group of hunters
to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. Driven by
destiny, the unlikely band of warriors must battle saber-tooth tigers and
prehistoric predators and, at their heroic journey's end, they uncover a Lost
Civilization. Their ultimate fate lies in an empire beyond imagination, where
great pyramids reach into the skies. Here they will take their stand against
a powerful god who has brutally enslaved their people. 10,000 BC, is a
great ride that takes you through a sweeping landscape of honor, pride
and standing up for one's self and each other. The movies message is a
good one. See it...enjoy it for what it is worth.
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